Haake: Federalism for Dummies
Last week, Republicans on the Supreme Court decided that bribing an elected official isn’t bribery if you wait a few days and call it a gratuity instead.
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Haake: Thomas’ death wish for America
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ callous disregard for life — playing word games to legalize bump stocks that function like machine guns — is hard to stomach. Thomas needs to...
Haake: Alito flies a flag of religious extremism, misogyny
As a relapsed Catholic and long-in-the-tooth federal trial lawyer, I am more familiar with Samuel Alito’s religious nuttery than I want to be. I certainly didn’t need any more proof...
Haake: Weaponizing ignorance is a dangerous game
Donald Trump’s felony convictions are fueling another disinformation campaign, this one equal in destructive force to his Big Lie. Orchestrating a unified response reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s, House...
Climate deniers need their own head-in-the-sand award
The Darwin Awards famously commemorate idiots who protect our gene pool by dying in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species’ chances of long-term survival. We need a different...
Haake: Alito, Thomas need to be punished for partisanship
The Supreme Court's authority depends on America’s trust in the rule of law, which Chief Justice John Roberts is allowing Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to mock.
Haake: Trump’s billion dollar Big Oil shakedown
As soon as fossil-fuel financed Donald Trump was sworn into office, he got busy destroying the nation’s climate progress. In June of 2017, Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw...
Haake: A post-Roe Mother’s Day wish
My mom died from COVID four years ago, just after Mother’s Day. I couldn’t write about it until I could be honest about who she was, a feat complicated by...
Haake: Technology is rotting our brains
Recent polls suggest half the country may vote against their own self-interests in November. The self-sabotage is head-turning: Christians who defend debauchery; poor people who give their money to a...
Fox News is lying about the Trump trial
David Pecker, long-time publisher of the National Enquirer and Donald Trump’s close friend, spent hours on the witness stand last week. With the relaxed demeanor of a jovial grandfather, Pecker...